Avram Miller

Avram is the CEO of The Avram Miller Company, a strategy and business development corporation. He was one of the first individuals to recognize the potential of the internet to become a powerful new medium and had a leading role in the development of broadband technologies starting with the development of the cable modem in 1993. Avram is known for his successful investments in early stage companies and has appeared several times in the Forbes Midas list of the top 100 venture investors including occupying the eighth position in 2003.

Avram joined Intel Corp in 1984 and served as vice president and director of corporate business development until 1999. While at Intel, he played a principal role in establishing the company’s venture activities and founded Intel Capital. Avram participated in Intel’s strategy committee and was responsible for developing Intel’s relationships with both the communications and media industries. Before joining Intel, he held a number of senior positions in the computer industry including serving as president of Franklin Computer Corporation and as group manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. Avram spent the majority of the 1970s applying computer technology to medical care. He has held academic positions at the Medical School of Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the Medical School of Tel Aviv University where he was an adjunct associate professor. Avram has served on the boards of a number of public and private technology and entertainment companies as well as advising various financial service companies.